Someone skipped on the rent and they left behind a huge upright piano, which got moved into our apartment so the other apartment could get rented out. I took to it and started playing.

When I was four years old, my mother owned some tenements in the Bronx.

We're doing a workshop over the first two weeks of December, I believe, with Graciella Daniele directing it.

I used to perform all the time but I haven't performed in New York in a very long time.

I'm lucky to be in a profession where you can keep getting better.

I decided during my teens that I wasn't going to have the life of a concert pianist, much to the chagrin of a lot of people who had put a lot of money into me!

So I went into jazz and performed in jazz clubs all over the country.

I have a bunch of albums I would love to get re-released.

My background was in performing originally.

Since I was the solo artist as well as the writer for the songs, I figured I had enough credits on it already.

To put it in musician's terms, my chops are good.

Someone skipped on the rent and they left behind a huge upright piano, which got moved into our apartment so the other apartment could get rented out. I took to it and started playing.

I'm trying to get hold of them... the trouble is a lot of the companies that recorded and produced the albums went bust, so I don't know where to get the masters.

We are haunted by an ideal life and it is because we have within us the beginning and the possibility of it.

The natural-gas industry is screaming for new markets, and there are only two sectors where these can be found: transportation and power generation.

I didn't see deep emotion from my parents. It was all very polite and very surface. I never knew how anybody was feeling.

Profit is not the legitimate purpose of business. The legitimate purpose of business is to provide a product or service that people need and do it so well that it's profitable.

I like squirrels. They're so adventurous.

No matter where you are, depression responds to the same treatment.

Personal technology has given us the freedom of being able to do whatever we want - and in the case of celebrities and athletes, whomever they want. But it can also serve as a humiliation jetpack.

I think art comes out of meaningful experiences, and it's hard to make art when your meaningful experience is getting into your electric car and driving from your fancy house in the Hills to your fancy job in the Valley.

No amount of charters, direct primaries, or short ballots will make a democracy out of an illiterate people.

Whether you're starving in a garret or living in a castle like J. K. Rowling, I had this image of the author as a flawless, composed individual, serene in the knowledge they were creating art.

It's not easy to define poetry.

We manage the fear, I manage the fear, but it certainly takes its toll, the strain does.

Simplicity is natures first step, and the last of art.

Many players want to make as much money as they can and change teams for ten grand. How is that going to make much difference to their lives?

If civilization has risen from the Stone Age, it can rise again from the Wastepaper Age.

The plays I remember are the plays I made a mistake.

In 2009, the proportion of American women who were married dropped below 50 percent.

I am still shocking people today, and I don't know why. Is it because I'm a woman talking about sex and men? One magazine said that no one writes sex in the back of a Bentley better than Jackie Collins.

I am an old journalist, so I always do a lot of research and dive deep into people's character, who they are, and their motivation.

I am proud of myself.

Clearly there are individuals who don't understand what the church teaches, or they think it's so limiting.

It would be nice to create something that's healing rather than slightly creepy and darkly judgmental!

As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence.

Mosquitoes remind us that we are not as high up on the food chain as we think.